Sinossi
Un uomo vaga estraniato per le strade di Newcastle, ancora piene di gente, mentre la notizia del virus che ha colpito l’Irlanda e il resto del mondo lo spinge a chiedersi cosa sia meglio fare. Un’infermiera esausta e impaurita per tutto quello che sta vivendo si sente ancora peggio dopo aver perso un paziente. Un padre si mette alla ricerca del figlio che non vede da tempo e si avventura per le strade di Dublino deserte per il lockdown… Storie commoventi, piene di vita e amore, ma anche di dolore e preoccupazione per i tempi incerti che tutti abbiamo dovuto attraversare. Con la sua tipica ironia, sferzata da battute fulminanti, Roddy Doyle dipinge un ritratto vivido e originale delle nostre esistenze, della vita famigliare, delle piccole cose per cui vale la pena di vivere. Per ricordarci che, malgrado tutto, anche la quotidianità più banale e ordinaria nasconde una ricchezza, che spesso riusciamo ad apprezzare solo dopo averla persa.
- ISBN: 882353335X
- Casa Editrice: Guanda
- Pagine: 224
- Data di uscita: 04-04-2023
Recensioni
Now, he actually was the man with no children. They weren’t in the house. They weren’t in his head when he woke. Their names on the screen when his phone rang were often a shock; nothing in the house or in the rhythm of his day was a reminder. They were gone. He wasn’t a father. What was he? A si Leggi tutto
There are 2, maybe 3 stories worth reading in this. One of them is only 4 pages long so I struggle to call it a story in principle. All the stories feature old white male perspectives. (Cause we need more of them?) And in almost every instance we were supposed to feel badly for the lead man because
We're all in this together, world-wide. And even though each experience is individualistic, a reader in the U.S. can identify with each character in these stories set in Ireland of life in lockdown. Each story sheds a light on a different viewpoint, whether it is disgust at the discarded masks, fear Leggi tutto
I am torn on this one. Life Without Children is a collection of ten COVID stories. I like Roddy Doyle's writing. He makes it seem so effortless. The problem is the subject. I am apparently not ready to read bleak pandemic stories. It makes the world feel gray to me when what I want is sunshine. So i Leggi tutto
A book of short stories all featuring Covid themes and set in Ireland, as are all of Doyle’s works. I found the stories to be of uneven quality, but where they worked, did they ever. The final two stories in the collection, The Worms and The Five Lamps, were particularly moving.
3,5 *** Een 10-tal kortverhalen die zich afspelen vlak voor of tijdens één van de lockdowns (covid) in Dublin. Het gaat meestal niet zozeer over de lockdown en covid 'an sich' maar meer over wat die gedwongen afzondering/isolatie doet met de menselijke psyche, hoe een enkeling dit ervaart, hoe een ko Leggi tutto
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